Need to reformat HD with Office 2003 OEM - Activation question

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Sugar

I need to reformat my HD. On it is installed Office SBE 2003 OEM version. I
am concerned I may not be to validate after reformat and re-install.
Is this a legitimate concern? If so, what should I do before reformat?
 
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DatabaseBen

unclear as to why the
nuclear option is needed on
your poor harddrive?

maybe a "repair installation"
with the windows setup cd
is the help you are looking for...
 
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Sugar

Boot is about 6 minutes long (Windows XP SP2 Pentium D 3Ghz 2GB RAM). I have
same set up on another computer (windows XP SP2 Pentium D 3GHz 1GB Ram Norton
Internet) and it is 1 minute long. System restore to previous state did not
change anything. Want to start from scratch. Question still open. Thanks.
 
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Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi Sugar,

The OEM editions of MS Office are tied to the original machine. You should have received an Office 2003 CD from the PC supplier
with your software (unless you converted a trial copy to a fully licensed one). Some suppliers unfortunately only provide the 'CDs'
for the preinstalled software in images that use a 'one time' application to extract and burn to CD/DVD.

If you have the CDs you should be fine to reinstall and reactivate on the same machine and you can use the telephone activation
method if you have difficulty with the online version.

Backup all of your files, of course, before leveling your hard drive's data content. Be sure you have and have checked each CD for
each product you want to reinstall ahead of time on the CD drive that is in that machine. (May not hurt to download the latest
drivers for particular drive, especially OEMs, as you may not have the latest ones if you 'start over'.

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I need to reformat my HD. On it is installed Office SBE 2003 OEM version. I
am concerned I may not be to validate after reformat and re-install.
Is this a legitimate concern? If so, what should I do before reformat? >>
--

Bob Buckland ?:)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
 
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DatabaseBen

reformatting the harddrive
does not improve system performance.

have you researched "defragmenting"
the boot up files?

have you adjusted your swap file
because you have opted to load
the system kernal into your memory,
since you have 2 gigs?

is your cmos running the ram
at full speed or half?

etc...

as you can see by the above, wiping
the hd clean might initially help. but
without fine tuning, you will end up
with the same issues.

however, since you have an oem
and you are not adding equipment
to your system, the original oem's
have to work. but there may be a slight
inconvenience that you will have to call
a 800 number for activation.
 
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